Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-07
OREGON NEWS.
Everything of General Interest in a
Condensed Form

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was drowned.
Frosts are beginning to nip garden
crops in and around Linkville.
The pos.officeat Glad Tidings, Clack
amas county, has been discontinued
Douglas county expects hop yield
of 1900 bales. That was last years
yield ooo =,
Two-thirds of the $4,000 subsidy
for the Astoria railroad has been sub
scribed.
J.J. Brown, of Prjneville, Or, was
sand. baggcd and robbed OF $75O IN
Bear valley.
Harry Downing, son of DIR. Down
ing, was drowned while playing in the
log boom at Coquille city.
Savage Bros saw mill on the Tua-
latin, about II miles from Portland,
was burned. Loss $1,000.
John Peters, sailor on the schooner
Claus Spreckels, was accidently
drowned at Shoalwatnr Bay.
The Piute Indians of Harvey valley
are serious considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of going on some reservation.
The Sellwood ferry steamer caught
fire and burned to the waters edge,
and sunk in fifty feet of water.
Cen'erville will donate $4,000 to
the O. & w. Il. r. r. Co. for the build
ing of its branch road to that place.
E. Chichester's barn, filled with
baled hay, near the Eugene University
grounds, was totally destroyed by fire.
Mr. Henry, farmer in Coles valley,
Douglas county, had HOO bushels OF
wheat burned from a burning straw
pile.
Mrs. Stanford, the millionaire's wife,
generously donated $500 each to the
Children's Home and the Boys and
Girls Aid Society OF Portland.
The baby daughter OF w. S. Boyn-
ton, living on Ovens creek, near Ca
mas prairie, Umatilla county, was
drowned by falling into that creek.
The recent rains have started the
grass on the hills, and by the time
sheepmen move their hocks from the
mountains feed will be excellent, says
an Ococho paper.
A new steamboat for the Oregon Pa
ciic Railroad, to be used in the Villa
mette river trade, is under construc-
ton at Portland. 1t will be an exact
counterpart of the N. S. Bentley.
Grasshoppers in the foothills near
kerby are doing considerable damage,
and are said to be more numerous
than at any time since 1862, when
they devoured everything before them.
A large number of Umatilla Indians
are roaming in the Pocahontas noun
taius. Their visit will be the means of
driving all the game out OF the country.
Hunters and mountaineers are wrathy.
David Irwin, of Corvallis, was robbed
OF $500 while attending the circus at
that place. A number of young men
were also fleeced of various sums rang
ing from $40 to $40 by confidence
games.
The Presbyterian Church, Just
finished at Lafayette, is very neat
edilice. The building is forty two feet
long and twenty-six feet wide, and will
seat 225 persons. The spire is forty.
six feet high.
A printer named Percy M. Walker
while attempting to steal ride on the
cars at Glendale, fell off the brake beam
and was cut to pieces, Multnomah
Typographical Union of Portland gave
him decent burial.
Hop picking throughout Linn
county developes the fact that the
yield this year will be unusually light,
in many yards being not over half a
crop. Hopgrowers ascribe the shortage
to the unusually dry season.
The Sunday schools of Southern
Oregon will be represented in conven.
ton at Grants Pass on the 9th ard 7lh
OF October. Jackson, Klamath. Curry
Coos and Josephine counties will ali
send number of representatives.
Three new hotels are to be put llp
at Grants station, on the Columbia
work to be commenced at once. The
travel through the place from Golden
dale, w. T., has increased so much n.
to Justify the putting up of the build
ings.
While several cowboys were on q
roundup of cattle near Lookout. and
Duslly engaged at their work. some
fearless law breaker drove off their nack
animal to convenient spot and made
away with the pack, containing qrub
blankets, etc. o W.
In the mountains near Lebanon
rank Shafer, aged 60, was mistaken
Ior bear in the bushes and shot at
oy a party OF hunters. The old mans
mead was almost blown to atoms The
'ofoners jury found that his death
was accidental. ''i
A young woman named Haas liyinc
near Amlty, shot herself in the foce
WIN a pistol. She had been firing the
PISTOL and looked in to see if there WIS
my more loads-and there was Th.,
'aii glanced off the side of the nose
md lodged in the cheek.
.. n. Hlte, aged about IS, a milk.
nan oil Albany, took an ounce of land
mum. Physicians say he cannot re-.
over tie has a wife and five chill.
'ren; Inc cause of the rash act il
to temporary insanity, resul.
hg from financial troubles. "
A meeting of the directors of tbe
,'a1 Err Firemen's Association was held